On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:49 PM, cm <chrispmur...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > In my experience, the one-bike-for-everything bike is more in the head > of the bike owner than the bike itself. The reality is that almost > every bike is capable of doing (almost) everything. The issue is > whether or not the cyclist is happy with that level of performance. > You can ride on the road, commute, mt. bike, tour, and more on a > mountain bike. I could ride my all-rounder for everything, though I > may not be able to ride with a group of carbon race bikes, mountain > bike with the FS crowd, or tour with tourists. But I am pretty happy > with the performance of the AR in each category. No matter what bike I > ride, I will never be the fastest, so the improvements in speed from > switching bikes is purely for my own ego. > > A central component to a one bike is "making do"-- and that is > something that people seem to have forgotten.
I disagree, to a point (or, perhaps that's after a point), with myself as a counter example. My custom Rivs will take, at most, a 35, 28 with fenders, and the wheels are small ones, 559 or 571. There is no way I could ride either of these, even with new tires, in the sandy soil of our bosque. There's even no way I could ride these on less soft off road surfaces, since they were built, per my instructions, for pavement riding only. In my own case (to continue talking about myself, which fascinates everyone, no?) the most versatile bike in the sense of, dammit!, choose one bike for everything and shut up!, would be the most extreme, the Redline Monocog 29er, since that *can* accept very fat tires with fenders, and also tires as narrow as you wish to mount (doubtless with disastrous results to the handling if below about 35 mm wide). Sure, one bike can do everything; you can climb Everest in a tuxedo. But it won't be fun. My idea of an all rounder is (1) that it be biased to do better either on road or off, and (2) that you accept compromises even with this bias. Personally (me again!) I have: gofast (fixed); commuter (fixed); grocery and beater (fixed); and off road bike (ss). -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM Professional Resumes. Contact resumespecialt...@gmail.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
